AS part of its efforts to encourage the wheelchair basketball in the Country, the Nigeria Wheelchair Basketball Federation has concluded arrangement to storm the London 2012 Paralympic Games with the National team.

According to the President, NWBF, Bukola Olopade, while chatting with the Tribunesports on Sunday, the federation will sponsor the national whelchair bacsketball team to the games to garner more experience.

The Country's wheelchair basketball team did not qualifier for the games during the qualifiers held in Morrocco early in the year.

Olopade, who despite the inability of the team to qualify said that ,the team needed to be encouraged and as such, the board has decided to encourage them by taking them to the games so that they will learn one or two things.

The former Commissioner for Sports, Ogun State said,''the board decided to sponsor the national team to the games so that they will be more exposed and learn one or two things from the games.

We have to encourage them having tried their best during the qualifier, and i am optimistic that they will be glad and gain a lot and what they need now is experience. Instead of attending competition, the board felt they should  a part of the London Paralympic games so that they will be part of the games family'',he said.

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